Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the Decay Channel H→ZZ→4l in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
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Alver, Burak Han; Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, Valentina; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Li, W.; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Stephans, George S. F.; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wenger, Edward Allen; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Xie, Si; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Zanetti, Marco; Wolf, Roger; Yang, Mingming; Yoon, A. S.; Bauer, Gerry P; Lee, Yen-Jie; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Rudolph, Matthew Scott; Sumorok, Konstanty C; ... Show more Show less
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A search for a Higgs boson in the four-lepton decay channel H→ZZ, with each Z boson decaying to an electron or muon pair, is reported. The search covers Higgs boson mass hypotheses in the range of 110<m[subscript H]<600 GeV. The analysis uses data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb[superscript -1] recorded by the CMS detector in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV from the LHC. Seventy-two events are observed with four-lepton invariant mass m[subscript 4ℓ]>100 GeV (with 13 below 160 GeV), while 67.1±6.0 (9.5±1.3) events are expected from background. The four-lepton mass distribution is consistent with the expectation of standard model background production of ZZ pairs. Upper limits at 95% confidence level exclude the standard model Higgs boson in the ranges of 134–158 GeV, 180–305 GeV, and 340–465 GeV. Small excesses of events are observed around masses of 119, 126, and 320 GeV, making the observed limits weaker than expected in the absence of a signal.
Date issued
2012-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Chatrchyan, S. et al. “Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the Decay Channel H→ZZ→4l in Pp Collisions at Sqrt[s]=7 TeV.” Physical Review Letters 108.11 (2012): Web. 4 May 2012.
Version: Final published version
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0031-9007
1079-7114